ISSUE / Week of June 13, 2016
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June 15, 2016 Today marks the one-month mark before the scheduled expiration of Airport and Airway Trust Fund spending authority, aviation excise taxes, Airport Improvement Program funding...
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June 15, 2016 A draft appropriations measure funding the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2017 was originally supposed to be debated and amended in the House Appropriations...
House, Senate WRDA Bills Stall En Route To Chamber Floors
June 15, 2016 | Jeff DavisJune 15, 2016 Public works committees in the House and Senate approved separate reauthorization bills for the water resources development program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers weeks ago –...
THUD Appropriations Fate Uncertain in House
June 15, 2016 | Jeff DavisJune 15, 2016 After fits and starts, the appropriations process for fiscal 2017 continues to move in both chambers of Congress. The House is considering the Defense bill on the floor this week...
Senate Commerce Panel OK’s Anderson, Dye Nominations
June 15, 2016 | Jeff DavisJune 15, 2016 Earlier today, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved, by voice vote, the nominations of Blair Anderson to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy...
Foxx Gives Senate Panel Six-Month Status Update on FAST Act
June 15, 2016 | Jeff DavisJune 15, 2016 Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on June 8 to provide a six-month update on the implementation of the...
House Roundtable Examines Innovation Provisions of FAST Act
June 15, 2016 | Emily HanJune 15, 2016 On June 9th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a roundtable discussion about the implementation of Title VI (Innovation)...
USDOT Awards Flights to Cuba – But No Decision on Havana Yet
June 15, 2016 | Rui NeivaJune 15, 2016 Last February, Secretary Foxx signed an agreement with the Cuban authorities that created a legal framework for up to 110 round trip flights per day between the U.S. and ten Cuban...
Studies Raise Safety Questions about Distractions from Digital Billboards
June 15, 2016 | Jerry WachtelRoadside billboards have been a part of the American landscape for as long as there have been American roads. Yet today, new technology has updated these icons from static signs to bright, active,...
House Votes Preemptively Against Carbon, Crude Oil Taxes
June 15, 2016 | Jeff DavisJune 15, 2016 The U.S. House of Representatives took two non-binding votes last week rejecting future energy taxes, and the discussion of whether or not energy taxes are different from the “user...
American Public Transportation Association and the Eno Center for Transportation Sign Cooperative Agreement
June 15, 2016 | Ann HeneberyOn June 9, 2016 the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and the Eno Center for Transportation (Eno) signed a three-year cooperative agreement. This agreement acknowledges the...